That gap creates lots of profound problems, but the progressive immiseration of the citizenry is not one of them. |
This includes killing, bodily or mental harm, preventing births, immiseration and forcibly transferring children. |
There is some evidence to suggest that their experience of settling in a new country has lead to immiseration rather than opportunity. |
In the Philippines, for example, rapid development and modernization led to the immiseration of the urban poor and the impoverishment of the rural population. |
Back then, the lower class, rather than sink meekly into its immiseration, periodically erupted in violent strikes and riots. |
The women recount stomach-churning stories of childhood slavery and abuse, rape, and immiseration. |